Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.